Deividas Kizala
Birth date12 February 1998 (age 28)
Birth placeKaunas, Lithuania
Height1.86 m
PartnerPaulina Ramanauskaitė (since 2020)
Mira Polishook (2018–19)
Guostė Damulevičiūtė
(2014–18)
Skating clubStartas, Kaunas
Beganskating2001
DisciplineIce dance

Deividas Kizala (born 12 February 1998) is a Lithuanian ice dancer. With his skating partner, Paulina Ramanauskaitė, he competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Career

Early years

As a single skater, Kizala was coached by Loreta Vitkauskienė and competed at two ISU Junior Grand Prix events in 2011.[1]

By 2014, he had teamed up with Guostė Damulevičiūtė to compete in ice dancing. The two debuted their partnership at the Volvo Open Cup in November 2014. They would represent Lithuania at three ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) events and three consecutive World Junior Championships, from 2015 to 2017. They qualified to the free dance at the 2017 World Junior Championships and finished 17th overall. They also made several appearances in the senior ranks, most notably at the 2018 European Championships. They ended their partnership after four seasons together.

In the 2018–19 season, Kizala skated with American ice dancer Mira Polishook, representing Lithuania in the junior ranks. The duo competed at two JGP events and qualified to the final segment at the 2019 World Junior Championships, where they finished 19th. They parted ways after one season as a team.

Partnership with Ramanauskaitė

In 2020, Kizala teamed up with Paulina Ramanauskaitė to compete as seniors. The two made their international debut in December 2020, at the Winter Star in Minsk, Belarus.

Although Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius qualified a spot for Lithuania in ice dancing at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Reed's application for Lithuanian citizenship was unsuccessful.[2] Following this decision, Ramanauskaitė/Kizala were nominated to fill the spot and placed 23rd at the Olympics.

Ramanauskaitė/Kizala were entered to compete in the 2025 World Championships. However, less than two weeks before the competition, they withdrew after Kizala fractured his leg while running and was in too much pain to continue training.[3]

Programs

With Ramanauskaitė

SeasonRhythm danceFree danceExhibition
2024–2025
[4]
2023–2024
[5]
2022–2023
[6]
2021–2022
[7]
2020–2021
[8]

With Polishook

SeasonRhythm danceFree dance
2018–2019
[9]

With Damulevičiūtė

SeasonRhythm danceFree dance
2017–2018
[10]
  • Rhumba: Historia de un amor
    performed by Ana Gabriel
  • Samba: Happy in Rio (Spiritual South Remix)
    by Max Sedgley
2016–2017
[11]
  • Blues
  • Swing
  • West Side Story
    by Leonard Bernstein
2015–2016
[12]
2014–2015
[13]

Men's singles

SeasonShort programFree skating
2011–2012
[1]
  • Soviet movie
    by Eduard Artemev

Competitive highlights

*JGP – Event of the ISU Junior Grand Prix Series

Ice dance with Guoste Damulevičiūtė

International[14]
Event14–1515–1616–1717–18
Europeans24th
CS Tallinn Trophy11th
Volvo Open9th
International: Junior[14]
Junior Worlds24th22nd17th
Youth Olympics9th
JGP Austria9th
JGP Poland11th
JGP Slovakia14th
Bavarian Open11th
Ice Star13th
Jégvirág Cup3rd
Mentor Toruń Cup4th6th
NRW Trophy11th
Pavel Roman Memorial4th
Tallinn Trophy9th
Volvo Open6th
National[14]
Lithuanian Champ.1st J1st J2nd

Single skating

International: Junior [15]
Event09–1010–1111–1212–13
JGP Estonia16th
JGP Latvia20th
National[15]
Lithuanian Champ.3rd3rd2nd

References

  1. ^ "Deividas KIZALA: 2011/2012". International Skating Union. Archived 21 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ^ * Suslavičius, Rokas (1 October 2021). "Lithuanian ice dancers may forgo Olympics after president rejects citizenship application". Lithuanian National Radio and Television * "Prezidentūra tarė žodį – Allison Reed Lietuvos pilietybės negaus" [The presidency said that Allison Reed would not receive Lithuanian citizenship] (in Lithuanian). Lithuanian National Radio and Television. 3 January 2022.
  3. ^ Jakilaitė, Barbora (2025-03-13). "Ledo šokėjai čempionate nekovos dėl vietos žaidynėse: iki paskutinės sekundės tikėjome" [Ice dancers won't fight for a place at the Games: we believed until the last second] (in Lithuanian). Lithuanian National Radio and Television. Retrieved 2025-03-13.
  4. ^ "Paulina RAMANAUSKAITE / Deividas KIZALA: 2024/2025". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 15 September 2024. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
  5. ^ "Paulina RAMANAUSKAITE / Deividas KIZALA: 2023/2024". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 12 March 2024. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
  6. ^ "Paulina RAMANAUSKAITE / Deividas KIZALA: 2022/2023". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 15 January 2023.
  7. ^ "Paulina RAMANAUSKAITE / Deividas KIZALA: 2021/2022". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 1 July 2022.
  8. ^ "Paulina RAMANAUSKAITE / Deividas KIZALA: 2020/2021". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 14 August 2021.
  9. ^ "Mira POLISHOOK / Deividas KIZALA: 2018/2019". International Skating Union. Archived 19 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine.
  10. ^ "Guoste DAMULEVICIUTE / Deividas KIZALA: 2017/2018". International Skating Union. Archived 29 May 2018 at the Wayback Machine.
  11. ^ "Guoste DAMULEVICIUTE / Deividas KIZALA: 2016/2017". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 30 May 2017.
  12. ^ "Guoste DAMULEVICIUTE / Deividas KIZALA: 2015/2016". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 27 May 2016.
  13. ^ "Guoste DAMULEVICIUTE / Deividas KIZALA: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 20 May 2015.
  14. ^ "Competition Results: Guoste DAMULEVICIUTE / Deividas KIZALA". International Skating Union
  15. ^ "Competition Results: Deividas KIZALA". International Skating Union